Georgia’s Republican governor won’t endorse town’s first racially integrated prom

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49. Some people will never change, no matter what.

When I was younger, we were visiting an uncle in Arkansas. This was my first time ever traveling outside Texas, not to say Texas doesn't have its fair share of racists. We stopped at diner to get some food, so our little family of 5 went in, and were treated nice, nothing was different then from eating at a diner in Dallas. As we were getting ready to leave, and elderly women approached my mother, and grabbed her from the shoulder. She asked my mother if she was ashamed, my mother was confused, and asked if I or my brothers had done anything wrong.

We hadn't done anything wrong, the elderly woman pointed to my father, who is a Mexican. She berated my mother, and accused her of being a race traitor, and tarnishing God's perfect plan. Her family came, and got her, and they apologized to no end. They said she was stuck in the old ways. That change was not easy for people raised like her.

My mother told us to never be ashamed of who we were. We're just people who happened to be a little browner then others.